Valeriy Nikolayevich Kubasov
From The Space Library
Valeriy Nikolayevich Kubasov; civilian; born January 7, 1935, Vyazniki; married, two children. Graduated as mechanical engineer for aircraft building from the Moscow Aviation School (1958), received a master of science degree (1968), and joined the cosmonaut corps in 1967. He was the backup technical scientist for Soyuz 5 and flight engineer on Soyuz 6. Mr. Kubasov was flight engineer for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
